Buhari's change and challenges
Subtitle: democratic transition and governance assessment in Nigeria
By: Mike Omilusi
Publisher: Human & Organisational Resources Development Centre (HORDC)
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Lagos, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9789789756032
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Politics and government; Democratization; Political participation
Description: Nigerians, since political independence, have been governed by mostly circumstantial/accidental leaders whose knowledge of governance and visions for a great country were substantially limited and often tangential to aspirations for corporate progress. Having desired a fundamental departure from then subsisting, perhaps even impugned, system, or so it seemed, Nigerians in their millions saw in the 2015 elections, the opportunity to change a 'fantastically corrupt' government and the party that had ruled for sixteen years! This book is a collection of the author's essays in the first three years of this administration, trying to address several critical questions concerning the present democratic dispensation of President Muhammadu Buhari, and the emerging challenges for his party's 'change' mantra. Simultaneously, the work inexorably also seeks to contribute to the study of democratisation and to shed light on the politics of transition (particularly within the African context of the transfer of power in a democratic setting.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.